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by ohyes 13y ago
It also kind of reads like a spam/form letter. Better(?): "Hi, I'm Colin, I'm moving to the Boston area and really interested in your start-up because..." Then talk about their technologies and ask any questions you
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by ohyes 13y ago
I'm still here. I mostly do s-expression -> language, because it lets me do code generation. The thing is, writing your own code generation tools is only really useful if you are capable of applying 'more difficult' to grok computer sci
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by ohyes 13y ago
A recursive acronym with a shift/reduce conflict.
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by ohyes 13y ago
Symbol A is not of type number. (1+ a)
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by ohyes 13y ago
I definitely block out my time for projects and work on one thing at a time for a day or two if I can. Task switching can be expensive, but if you have some state saved outside of your head/computer, it can help jog your mind when you want
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by ohyes 14y ago
That would be an interesting concept. Open source the entire news process so that everything is completely transparent (information gathering to fact checking to distribution process). Call it the gnnews.
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by ohyes 14y ago
Sorry, but what the hell is a 'software artificer'? If you look at how the word 'artifice' is used, it is generally negative, associated with being overly clever for the purposes of pretense, or generally false/insincere. So if I'm not sure
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by ohyes 14y ago
I was hoping for another way to sign in. I killed my Facebook account a couple weeks ago and would rather not reactivate. Also 'strangers for dinner' makes me think of cannibalism. Not something I particularly want to be thinking about when
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by ohyes 14y ago
I don't have an attitude about answering 'stupid' questions if they are asked in an honest manner. I have answered and asked many 'stupid' questions in my lifetime and will answer/ask many more. Asking stupid questions is a part of learning
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by ohyes 14y ago
Clearly eggplant golf balls fit on a bus. I always assume the reason that you ask these questions is because you don't have anything interesting to talk about in the interview. Interviews are as much a chance for a candidate to disqualify t
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by ohyes 15y ago
That's definitely true, but I think that a part of on the job training is building loyalty. If you like the people you work with and the salary and benefits are pretty decent, you are not likely to want to go looking for another job. For my
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by ohyes 15y ago
I think another issue is that no one is interested in doing 'on the job' training. Few people learn statistics, programming, and data-presentation in college (not all three anyway). Companies might consider finding someone smart with one or
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by ohyes 15y ago
1.) You named one deficiency. You Googled it and although there were answers, you didn't like the answers that you received. Please enumerate the other deficiencies so I can laugh at how incredibly lame your perceived problems are. 2.) The
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by ohyes 15y ago
> But how come people like him are held up to such high standards? Because he is supposed to be a leader. Leaders are held to higher standards. They are supposed to have integrity and good character. The people you cite are celebrities
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by ohyes 15y ago
This is insulting to everyone... Why would I take a break from a two day Hackathon to drink beer, work out, and chase women? It is only two days. Presumably, if I wanted to do that, I would go to a bar or the gym. Who the hell do they think
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by ohyes 15y ago
I am a programmer and I think of my computer as a magic box. It has very specific principles, but is basically magical in nature. The mystery of all of the things that I could possibly do with it is what keeps me programming. I like to thin
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by ohyes 15y ago
This is completely true, something that I'd like to note is that the more hands on your are, the better trust you build with the customer. This means they are more likely to keep buying your product (they know you and like you). They are mo
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by ohyes 15y ago
First off, I get that Norvig is a celebrity. Celebrity has little to do with teaching ability. Secondly, I think reducing my point to 'argle bargle...social' is a little unfair. This may just be coming from my psyche as someone who has been
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by ohyes 15y ago
I think I will sign up and try it out knowing this.
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by ohyes 15y ago
The nice thing about college is that it provides an easy way to find a lot of other smart people who are about your age. Also, teaching someone else solidifies knowledge a lot more quickly than straight lecture or exercises. So it is too ba
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by ohyes 15y ago
Check the TOS; it says pretty clearly they are not accredited and courses taken will not stand in for an accredited course.
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by ohyes 15y ago
Got to say, been using Ubuntu for 3+ years now, never encountered anything like this.
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by ohyes 15y ago
I like bootstrap because I'm terrible at getting things to align properly on a web page and it basically does it for me. As a programmer, this is awesome because I can spend the rest of my time on the interesting programming stuff. Really,
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by ohyes 15y ago
So ask the programmer to program or debug something, give him a decent IDE and access to Google. Don't ask him to answer trivia. 'Can you fix this simple 10 line function' is much less insulting. It is a huge turn off for a lot of people an
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by ohyes 15y ago
I think the point of this article is that it doesn't matter if you are top talent. It is detrimental to your growth think that you are. It is better to approach learning anything from a position of humility and interest rather thank thinkin
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by ohyes 15y ago
> a regional service manager for Tesla stated he was personally aware of at least five cases of Tesla Roadsters being “bricked” due to battery depletion. This regional service manager has been sacked. The correct answer here was, "I'm
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by ohyes 15y ago
Language Bytes Clojure 6731 JavaScript 9778 Erlang 13858 Common Lisp 584550 Emacs Lisp 2489 What do I win Bob??
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by ohyes 15y ago
open source != community driven This person has some other version of open source in mind in which it means something other than 'I can download the source code with the program.' I don't take community suggestions for features on any of th
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by ohyes 15y ago
Erlang vm is a lisp 2. To me this looks like a not as well developed version of LFE.
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by ohyes 15y ago
If you find yourself getting distracted a ton, maybe you should take a step back and look at what you are working on? Do you believe in it? Do you find it challenging and interesting? Are you working on something that is important to you an

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